The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1887-01-29
THE WEST.
A FmGHTFUL tragedy is reported by tel
egraph from Cleveland, Ohio:

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egraph from Cleveland, Ohio;
James Cabalek is a weil-to-do carpenter liv-
ing on Independence street, near the city limits
Thursday morning he and his son went to work
shortly before clock. Tho mother, Antonette,
had been out Of temper at the breakfast table,
and had refused To talk to her husband. Directly
after breakfast she sent Henry, her Is
yeAr-old son, % grocery near by, and still an
other son 90 n milk depot. When they returned,
they could not get into the house. Going into
the back yard, they saw James, as years old in
q clCsot, bleeding from sixteen wounds IN his
loft side. They nastened away and called their
older brother, who I'D gone OF with the father,
and, returning, the three boys forced All entrance
10 the house. They discovered Tony, an S-yoar-
old carl, bleeding from dozen cuts in hor lett
sido. On the floor near by were Mamie, years
old Antoinette, years old. and Willie,
months old, all dead from dreadful stabs near
tho heart. A bloody pair of shears told the
story. hunt made for the mother. She
was found ia the cellar, hanging from rafter,
dead. She had killed. her three children. NOR
tally injured two othefs. and had then suicided.
The two children who we're still alive were re-
moved TO n ncighbor house, but they will die.
No cause for the terrible deed 10 given Tho
husband does not think that his wife was In
sane
A PANTHER weighing eighty pounds
was killed on the outskirts Of Peoria,
Ill. The Detroit Driving Club has with
drawn from the National Trotting Associa-
ton, and it's Secretary, ID. j. Campau, has
District Board. A call for meeting TO
form new organization has been sent
out. Simpson Harras died in Putnam
County, Indiana, last week, aged 100. He
was born in Orange County, North Caro-
lima, Jan. /, 1878. He cast his first vote
for Jefferson, for President, in 1901, and
had voted at every Presidential election
since. He was veteran of the war of 1912.
His memory remained good. He talked
intelligently about men and events con-
nected with the formation period of the
Republic.
NEARLY two thousand farmers of Cler-
mont County. Ohio, participated in hunt
last week, the result being the killing of
two red foxes The Live Stock Commits
sion at Springfield, ILL.,, has sent ont checks
amounting 90 $2O,OOO, TO reimburse the
owners Of cattle killed in Chicago on ac-
count of pleuro- pneumonia . Those Sem
inoles of Indian Territory who suffered by
the failure of their crops are receiving from
the funds OF the tribe n sufficient sum 10
tide them over 10 the next harvest. In
the case of Sadie Hayes, charged with kill
ing Policeman jerks, I'm st. Louis, il was
agreed that plea NJ guilty would be ac-
cepted, and that she should be sentenced
10 ninety-nine years In the penitentary.
She has been in jail since October, 1888.
49,. On the ground that the contract was
based on gambling operation, the County
Court of Milwaukee dismissed the suit OF
Daniel Wells against Peter McGeoch for
$500, 900 alleged TO be due on the famous
lard deal OF 1880. "A Chicago dispatch
says that Nina Van Zandt cooked a break
fast for August Spies, placed loving card
between two slices Of bread, and sent a
colored woman 10 the Jail with n basket.
AS the iailor found no contraband articles
in the package he sent guard TO the an
nrchist's cell with IL. Miss Van Zandt will
90 with her mother to Paris, and reside there
till decision is reached I'm the Spies case.
"a passenger train on the Louisville
and Nashville road was wrecked near Haw-
thorne, Illinois, by tho explosion OF the
boiler of the locomotive. The engineer
and fireman were killed. and the express
and baggage cars were demolished.